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New comment by buildartefact in "RenderFormer: Neural rendering of triangle meshes with global illumination"

buildartefact — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 07:10:32 +0000

For the scenes that they’re showing, 76ms is an eternity. Granted, it will get (a lot) faster but this being better than traditional rendering is a way off yet.

New comment by buildartefact in "Triangle splatting: radiance fields represented by triangles"

buildartefact — Fri, 30 May 2025 23:54:42 +0000

https://svraster.github.io/

New comment by buildartefact in "Reverse engineering of the formula used to generate the "reciprocal tariffs""

buildartefact — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 07:04:04 +0000

Because none of what they call “tariffs imposed on the US” are tariffs. It’s the trade deficit divided by the country’s exports to the US. They’re literally making shit up and expecting stupid people to take it at face value.

They’re imposing tariffs on uninhabited islands. They don’t care enough to even try and make it plausible. That’s how stupid they think their supporters are and how much contempt they have for them.

New comment by buildartefact in "TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users"

buildartefact — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 21:46:22 +0000

I used to believe this vehemently. It has become clear that that’s a notion from a bygone age.

The internet has created a global town square where the loudest voices are the ones that catch people’s attention, regardless of the veracity of their claims. There is no truth any more, only the cult of personality.

Tomorrow the US installs a racist, rapist, treasonous kleptocrat as president because the majority of people are unable to think objectively and swallow his promises at face value, despite every indication that life will be immeasurably worse if you’re not a billionaire oligarch.

New comment by buildartefact in "Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation"

buildartefact — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 04:32:47 +0000

What’s hilarious is there’s nothing physically based about the Disney model. It’s empirical and It’s not even energy conserving.

As sibling pointed out, physically based rendering precedes “PBR” by a looong time and goes much, much deeper than “I put a metalness map in my shader”

New comment by buildartefact in "Working with jumbo/unity builds in C/C++"

buildartefact — Sun, 19 May 2024 09:46:05 +0000

They do.

New comment by buildartefact in "Gaussian Blue Noise (2022)"

buildartefact — Wed, 15 May 2024 20:10:30 +0000

In path tracing blue noise does not increase convergence, but does reduce the perceptual error.

New comment by buildartefact in "CUDA Is Still a Giant Moat for Nvidia"

buildartefact — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 17:09:48 +0000

CUDA IS the merit. They’ve been developing the software stack to make GPU programming accessible for 2 decades now. They’re a software company as much or more than they are a hardware company. Ignoring this fundamentally misunderstands why they’re in the position they’re in now.

New comment by buildartefact in "Look, ma, no matrices"

buildartefact — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 19:36:38 +0000

This is exactly what the article is about. TLDR they can be roughly equivalent

New comment by buildartefact in "Ask HN: How to Learn Cloud Development?"

buildartefact — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 20:35:57 +0000

Thanks for the recommendations. I’m definitely planning on trying to build something as I learn so the tip on DigitaOcean is appreciated too.

Ask HN: How to Learn Cloud Development?

buildartefact — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 16:44:54 +0000

I’m a graphics programmer who wants to move to cloud development. What’s the fastest way to get skilled up on writing and deploying secure services to CSPs to create large-scale, distributed applications?

I know words like k8s, containers, helm charts and have a high-level idea about what all these mean, but don’t know where to start learning how to actually implement and deploy any of this stuff.

Are there any good online courses, or up-to-date books you recommend to learn?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39327654

Points: 5

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New comment by buildartefact in "An artist fights Midjourney"

buildartefact — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 01:29:41 +0000

Asks for screenshot from movie. Image generator gives screenshot from movie. Who’s at fault here?

New comment by buildartefact in "Dear ImGui: Graphical User Interface library for C++"

buildartefact — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 01:42:36 +0000

egui is pure rust. It is not a rust binding of ImGUI

New comment by buildartefact in "Show HN: A pure C89 implementation of Go channels, with blocking selects"

buildartefact — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 05:30:16 +0000

Do you know of a good style guide that encapsulates common conventions like create/destroy?

New comment by buildartefact in "Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, Git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016)"

buildartefact — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 18:33:15 +0000

PowerShell is the worst of all worlds. Its a terrible shell compared to bash/zsh/whateversh, and for anything complex enough to need a long script you’re far better off in Python.

New comment by buildartefact in "Light can make water evaporate without heat"

buildartefact — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 23:06:05 +0000

That’s for sRGB, which as for most colour spaces is defined relative to CIE XYZ, which is itself defined in terms of the perception of a “standard human observer”. In XYZ, the Y coordinate is the luminance (brightness) of the colour and that first equation is computing Y from the RGB value

New comment by buildartefact in "Marcel the Shell"

buildartefact — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 07:11:31 +0000

The worst part of it is they aliased a bunch of common posix command names to their power shell equivalents but then they have different flags or semantics. Works fine until it trips you up destructively.

New comment by buildartefact in "Maybe Rust isn’t a good tool for massively concurrent, userspace software"

buildartefact — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 01:16:33 +0000

>There's no option to "turn the borrow checker off" - which means that when you're in prototyping mode, you pay this huge productivity penalty for no benefit

That’s not really true. The standard workaround for this is just to .clone() or Rc> to unblock yourself, then come back later and fix it.

It is true that this needs to be done with some care otherwise you can end up infecting your whole codebase with the “workaround”. That comes with experience.

New comment by buildartefact in "Maybe Rust isn’t a good tool for massively concurrent, userspace software"

buildartefact — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 01:10:21 +0000

You’re seriously suggesting writing a game engine in Python?

New comment by buildartefact in "Jai Programming Language – Resources and Information"

buildartefact — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 06:16:55 +0000

It means if you don’t like it, or take any objection to its design then you are not a good programmer and just don’t “get it”.

Considering the author, it’s completely unsurprising.